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Option

Description

 

 

 

 

Advanced*

Power-On Options

Hot-Pluggable MB Floppy

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(enable/disable) Enabling this feature

 

 

 

allows the user to hot-plug a MB floppy

 

 

 

into a system running Windows 2000.

 

 

 

This feature has no effect for other

 

 

 

Operating Systems. (This feature is

 

 

 

supported on select models only.)

 

 

 

 

Onboard Devices

Allows you to set resources for or disable

 

 

onboard system devices (diskette controller,

 

 

serial port or parallel port).

 

 

 

 

PCI Devices

• Lists currently installed PCI devices and

 

 

 

their IRQ settings.

 

 

• Allows you to reconfigure IRQ settings for

 

 

 

these devices or to disable them entirely.

 

 

 

These settings have no effect under an

 

 

 

APIC-based operating system.

 

 

 

 

Bus Options

On select models, allows you to enable or

 

 

disable:

 

 

• PCI bus mastering, which allows a PCI

 

 

 

device to take control of the PCI bus

 

 

• PCI VGA palette snooping, which sets the

 

 

 

VGA palette snooping bit in PCI

 

 

 

configuration space; only needed when

 

 

 

more than one graphics controller is

 

 

 

installed

 

 

PCI SERR# Generation

 

 

• ECC support allows hardware based

 

 

 

error correction for ECC-capable

 

 

 

memories

Support for Computer Setup options may vary depending on your specific hardware configuration.

* These options should be used by advanced users only.

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